From the Metrics menu, choose the Basics command to display the Basic Metrics dialog box. It contains information about font size. The dialog box contains the following text boxes.
Text box | Description |
Characters , | ||
First | The first character in the character set. This is the numeric character code of the first character for which the font contains a printable character. | |
Last | The last character in the character set. This is usually 127 for a 7-bit character set, or 255 for an 8-bit character set. | |
Default | The code of the character printed if the driver is asked to print a character that falls outside the range First through Last. | |
Break | The character that delimits words in word wrapping. If an application or the DrawText function is asked to wrap a string in a box, it will break the string into multiple lines only at break character positions. This is generally the space character (32 in both ANSI and ASCII). | |
Leading , | ||
Internal | The leading that appears within the height specified by the height of the font. Diacritical marks appear in this space. | |
External | The recommended additional space to insert between lines. This space is not already accounted for in the height of the font. | |
Resolution , | ||
Horizontal and Vertical | The number of dots-per-inch at which the font was digitized. For an HP LaserJet, for example, both of these numbers should be 300. | |
Widths , | ||
Average | For proportional space fonts, the average width of all the characters in the font. This box is relabeled “All” for fixed-pitch fonts, because all fixed-pitch characters have the same width. It is represented in font units. The PFM Editor does not calculate the average width from the width table; it must be explicitly entered. It is generally the width of the lowercase x. | |
Maximum | The width in font units of the widest character in the font. Again, this is not calculated from the user-width table. For fixed-pitch fonts, this box is not used and is disabled. | |
Height | The height in font units of the character cell, including internal leading. | |
Ascent | The ascent in font units of the font. The distance from the top of the character cell to the baseline of the font. |
With the exception of the width table for proportional fonts, this dialog box fills in the remainder of the Microsoft-defined font file header. All of these text boxes must be specified accurately.
There are also two buttons: OK, which carries out the changes in the PFM file, and Cancel, which ignores all changes made.